Supporting the adaptation of texts for poor literacy readers
Arnaldo Cândido, Erick Galani Maziero, Caroline Gasperin, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Lucia Specia, Sandra Maria Aluísio · 2009
In this paper we investigate the task of text simplification for Brazilian Portuguese. Our purpose is three-fold: to introduce a simplification tool for such language and its underlying development methodology, to present an on-line authoring system of simplified text based on the previous tool, and finally to discuss the potentialities of such technology for education. The resources and tools we present are new for Portuguese and innovative in many aspects with respect to previous initiatives for other languages.